The Housing Mobility Initiative

PRRAC’s Housing Mobility Initiative is a multi-year effort to bring together mobility counseling agencies, public housing agencies, and housing integration advocates to develop research and advocacy strategies to influence the debate over the direction of voucher policy. Along with our partners in the civil rights community, we have consistently urged HUD to expand housing mobility in federal programs, and to remove impediments to mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher Program (“Section 8”). Our work is motivated by the insight that the housing voucher program, if administered well, is the most direct and promising means of delivering desegregated housing opportunities to low income families of color.

Fifth National Conference on Housing Mobility
June 11 and 12, 2012, Washington DC

Co-sponsored by PRRAC and the Urban Institute

Monday, June 11: Practitioner roundtable. How to build, strengthen, and support an effective regional housing mobility program - a structured learning exchange among new, emerging, and experienced housing mobility practitioners (contact Phil Tegeler for more information – ptegeler@prrac.org.)

Tuesday, June 12: Policy conference. Briefings from researchers and advocates, and dialogue with HUD staff on the latest developments in housing mobility policy – including prospects for expansion in the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, the Sustainable Communities program, and Section 8 policy reforms on the horizon. Register today!

The conference will be held at the Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW.

If you need to reserve a hotel room, we have reserved a block at the St. Gregory Luxury Hotel & Suites, 2033 M St NW (across from the Urban Institute).
You can call and make reservations directly at: (202) 530-3600 or (800) 829-5034.
Please request rooms under “Urban Institute” (room rate is $224 plus 14% tax)